48% to 90% GPU utilization: What DDN and Google Cloud unlocked for AI
AI infrastructure conversations usually stay very technical. But my chat with , Santosh Erram, VP Partnerships DDN at Google Cloud Next '26 on The Ravit Show went in a different direction.
He kept bringing it back to one thing. Business value. Yes, compute is growing. Yes, GPUs are everywhere. But that is not the real bottleneck anymore. Data is. If you cannot move it fast, access it easily, and actually use it, your AI investment does not translate into outcomes.
What stood out was how fast things are moving. Their partnership with Google Cloud went from idea to launch in under six months…
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